Conf42: Cloud Native 2021

Graviton2: How Honeycomb Reduced Infra Spend by 40% on Its Highest-Volume Service

How did Honeycomb have the confidence to migrate to a more efficient processor architecture, resulting in a 40% reduction in AWS spend on their backend ingest service? In this talk, Shelby Spees explores how Honeycomb’s platform engineering measured the risk and ROI of moving their high-traffic ingest workloads to the new ARM-based Graviton2 processor architecture. Learn how high-cardinality...